Judge rules that Jobs' quotes are evidential

Apple had a crack at stopping its dead CEO, Steve Jobs, from putting his foot in it during a court case against Motorola Mobility.

Jobs’ Mob is scheduled for a high profile patent trial in a Chicago federal court against Motorola Mobility later this month.

Before he croaked, Jobs had discussed Apple’s patent litigation with biographer Walter Isaacson.

He gave such quotes like: “Our lawsuit is saying, ‘Google, you f****** ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off… it is Grand Theft… I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this.”

Apple wanted to keep the comments out of the court room because they showed that Jobs had it in for Google and Motorola and the patent cases were more to do with spite rather than a real legal decision.